First thing to wrap your head around is the way they count days on this little adventure. I get admitted on what they refer to as day Negative 2. This is the first day of chemo which I went over in the last post. Yesterday was day Negative 1 which went pretty much the same as the day before. Got some chemo and steroids in the morning, some anti nausea meds and we are off.

Today is day zero. Today is the day I get my stem cells back. They went on a little journey where they got preserved and frozen and now they are back and ready to get infused back into the general population. I had a crowd for this part, multiple nurses and transplant organizers. A blood infusion team warming those suckers up in a bath and a couple of students.

The whole process took a couple hours. My mom and sister in law Shelly was able to make it in for the final half hour or so. They brought chicken soup and tasty cookies. Aunt Susan also stopped by with bread pudding. This chemo diet isn’t working out so far.

I found out yesterday that I am able to go on walk abouts as long as I am gloved and masked up. I am trying to take a couple walks a day just to keep my energy up. With all this food they are giving me I am still putting on the lbs while getting the real deal Chemo! So I got to go old school and work off the lbs. This doesn’t seem fair at all.

So far we came, we got the chemo, and the stem cells. So time to head back home and hang the mission accomplished flag up right? Not so much. The doc drew me a Keith’s two weeks of suckness chart. We are currently at the top left where it says zero.

On Saturday once my stem cells get settled back in I get a shot which put’s them in overdrive. During the next week I am going to feel less and less chipper. They say this bottoms out around day plus 7. After that my counts come back up and approximately seven days after that I get to head home. Mileage will vary per patient some get hit harder then others. We shall see how it goes.

That is the last bag of stem cells. That puppy holds around 700k of Keith’s stem cell goodness. I got another 4 million of those bad larrys on ice should I need them later. All in all I am still feeling good. Waiting on the suckness that is coming but it’s a week of some bad flu like symptoms. Nothing I can’t handle.

Looking forward to watching the game this weekend. In the meantime I am going nap play some music and catch up on all the netflix shows Liz didn’t want to watch. You know what? I am in a good mood so I will give you one Leroy picture. This is LB cuddling with the wife who is holding down the fort. Thank’s to Aunt Linda for the couch snuggle blanket.

If anyone wants more detailed information or to donate to research for Multiple Myeloma here is a link to the Multiple Myeloma Research Foundation. These are the people who are most likely to find a cure. Which means no more blueberry muffins on Tuesday, but also no more shots and drugs that make demon babies. The muffins are good, but not that good.